Nakamura Moshio IV (中村もしほ) as
Toyotomi Hideyori (豊臣秀頼)

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)

Play:  Nijô-jô no Kiyomasa (二條城の清正)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za
Performance Date: 02/01/35
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Moshio IV (中村もしほ) as Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Yûraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1936
Print Date: 1936?
Artist: Tachibana Sayume (橘小夢)
Title: [Peach Moon] Momotsuki (もも月)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Ichikawa Dannosuke VI (市川團之助) as
Takuetsu ( 按摩宅悦)
 
Nakamura Moshio IV (中村もしほ) as Oiwa (お岩)
           
Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan (東海道四谷怪談)
Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/1948
Print Date: 07/1948?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Series: Shichigatsu Kyôgen Mitsukoshi Gekijô
Hanga Ko-Shû (七月狂言 三越劇場 板画小集))
Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Moshio IV (中村もしほ) in the dual
            roles of Oiwa (お岩) and Kobotoke Kohei
            (小佛小平)
           
            Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan (東海道四谷怪談)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 07/1948
            Print Date: 07/1948?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Shichigatsu Kyôgen Mitsukoshi Gekijô
            Hanga Ko-Shû (七月狂言 三越劇場 板画小集))
            Medium: Woodblock print with hand-applied color
            on verso
            Personal Collection

Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)

Play: Tokuan Zutsumi (徳庵堤), Act I of
Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/1949
Print Date: 02/1949?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊)
Personal Collectionn

     
      Kataoka Ichizô V (片岡市蔵) as ? (会津の客蝋九)

      Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
      Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛))
 
      Play: Tokuan Zutsumi (徳庵堤), Act I of
      Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
      Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
      Performance Date: 02/03/1949
      Print Date: 02/1949?
     Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
     Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊)
      Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
            Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)

            Nakamura Kichinojô  I (中村吉之丞) as
            Kawachiya Tokubê (河内屋徳兵衛)

            Nakamura Baishi II (中村梅枝) as
            Yohê's half-sister Okachi (おかち)

             ? as Priest?

            Play: Kawachiya Yohê-nai (河内屋与兵衛内), Act II of
            Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊)
            Personal Collection
 

            
            Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
            Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)
 
            Nakamura Kichinojô  I (中村吉之丞) as
            Kawachiya Tokubê (河内屋徳兵衛)

            Play: Kawachiya Yohê-nai (河内屋与兵衛内), Act II of
            Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊)
            Personal Collection

Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)
 
Nakamura Kichinojô  I (中村吉之丞) as
Kawachiya Tokubê (河内屋徳兵衛)

Play: Kawachiya Yohê-nai (河内屋与兵衛内), Act II of
Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/1949
Print Date: 02/1949?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊)
Personal Collection
 
 

 
   Samushiro?  (左莚)  as Nishikiya Kobê (錦屋小兵衛)
 
   Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
   Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)
           
   Play: Teshimaya Aburamise (豊嶋屋油店),
   Act III , Scene 1 of Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
   Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
   Performance Date: 02/03/1949
   Print Date: 02/1949?
   Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
   Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊)
   Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
            Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)

            Nakamura Matagorô  II (中村又五郎) as
            Teshimaya Shichizaemon (豊島屋七左衛門)
       
            Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
             Okichi (お吉)

            Play: Teshimaya Aburamise (豊嶋屋油店),
            Act III , Scene 1 of
            Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊)
            Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
            Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)

           Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
           Okichi (お吉)

            Play: Teshimaya Aburamise (豊嶋屋油店),
            Act III , Scene 1 of Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊)
            Personal Collection

Nakamura Moshio IV (中村もしほ) as
Sodehagi (袖萩)
           
Play: Sodehagi Saimon (袖萩祭文), Act III
(final scene) of Ôshû Adachi-ga-Hara
(奥州安達原)
Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/1949
Print Date: 02/1949?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Image courtesy of MyJapaneseHanga.com

            
            Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
            Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)

            Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
            Nyôbô (女房) the wife] Okichi (お 吉)

            Play: [Toshima Oil Shop] Toshima ya Abura-ten (豊嶋屋油店),
            Act III of Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Medium: Woodblock print with hand-applied color on verso
            Image courtesy of MyJapaneseHanga.com'

            Note: This print was not found in my copy of Abura no
            Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊) reproduced below.  
            It is not known at this time if my set is incomplete or if this
            particular print was separately issued by Kihei.
 
 
 

Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII 中村勘三郎) as
Toyotomi Hideyori (豊臣秀頼)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)
 
 Sawamura Tosshô IV  (沢村訥升;澤村訥舛) as
Kita-no-Mandokoro (北政所)
 
Play: Nijō-jō no Kiyomasa (二條城の清正)
Performance Place: Misono-za, Nagoya
Performance Date: 05/1950
Print Date: 05/03/50
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Medium: Woodblock printed program cover
Personal Collection

Note: Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII 中村勘三郎) celebrated his
shumei at the Misono-za in Nagoya  with a troupe led by
his brother Nakamura Kichiemon I.  Other plays on the bill
included Akegarasu Yume no Awayuki (明鳥夢泡雪),
Kamakura Sandaiki (鎌倉三代記), Narukami (鳴神), 
Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子), and Banzuiin Chobê ((幡随長兵衛;
幡随院長兵衛).
 
 
  

                   
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Tabakoya Genshichi (煙草屋源七)

Play: Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 12/1951
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum/
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Miuranosuke (三浦之助)

Play: Kamakura Sandaiki (鎌倉三代記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1951
Print Date: 1955?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#10)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
[Hell Screen] Jigoku Hen (地獄変)
 
Play: Jigoku Hen (地獄変)
Performance Place: Kabukii-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/05/53
Print Date:
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cast of this production included Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII
(中村勘三郎) as Eshi Yoshihide (絵師良秀), Matsumoto Kōshirō VIII
(松本幸四郎) as Horikawa Daijin (堀河大臣), Nakamura Utaemon VI
(中村歌右衛門)  as  Yoshihide Musume Ro 艸 (良秀娘露艸) and as
Tsuyukusa (露草), Nakamura Shikaku II (中村 芝鶴) as ? (    ), Nakamura
Matagorō II (中村又五郎)   as Deshi Hanada Waka, Morita Kan'ya XIV
(守田 勘弥) as Deshi Fudeo (弟子筆雄), Sawamura Sōjūrō VIII
(沢村宗十郎) as Midai Aoi no Kata (御台葵の方).
 

                 
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Rôjo Iwate (老女岩手)

Play: Ôshû Adachi-ga-Hara (奥州安達原)
Performance Place: Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1978
Print Date: 07/1978
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Personal Collection (one of two surviving copies from
 an edition of four)

Note: A trial work, not publicly sold.
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as Tetori Hantarô (手取り半太郎)

Play: Irezumi Chôhan (刺青奇遇)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1978
Print Date: 09/10/78
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits I (Design 1)]
Daiichi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 1 (第一期大首絵シリーズの1)
Personal Collection (ed, 45)

Note: This is the second printing (with seal 2) mounted on portions of the original keyblock.  The edition number of
45 appears to be that of both printings combined.  Color variants of this print (and possibly the earlier state) exist.
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Ghost (亡霊) of Hôkaibô (法界坊) Nowakeihime (野分姫)

Play: Hôkaibô (法界坊)
[Sumidagawa Gonichi no Omokage (隅田川続俤)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1982
Print Date: 09/1982
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 7)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 7 (第三期大首絵シリーズの7)
Personal Collection (#15/27)
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)

Play: Yoshidaya (吉田屋) [Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/83
Print Date: 01/1983
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 14)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 14
(第三期大首絵シリーズの14)
Personal Collection (#3/27)

Note: 3 copies from the edition of  27 were destroyed by the artist.
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVlI (中村勘三郎) as
Danjô Imôto Yashio (弾正妹八汐)

Jitsukawa Enjaku III (三世實川延若) as
Sakae Gozen (栄御前)

Play: Sendai Hagi (先代萩)
[Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/83
Print Date: 05/1983
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 20)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 20
(第三期大首絵シリーズの20)
Personal Collection (#14/36)

Note: A larger version of Kanzaburô XVlI's face was used for
Reminiscences II (01/2000).  19 copies from the edition of 36
were destroyed by the artist.
 
 
 

                 
Reminiscences II (思い出 II)

Print Date:  01/2000
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

Note: This print contains larger versions of
the following actors' faces (left to right
starting at the top row):

1. Ichikawa Ennosuke III (市川猿之助) as Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六) in
Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (07/02/1982).
2. Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as Hannyo (斑女) in
Sumidagawa (隅田川), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/1981).
3. Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松縁) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in
Kanjinchô (勧進帳), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (11/1980).
4. Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助) in
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo (10/04/1986).
5. Nakamura Kanzaburô XVlI (中村勘三郎) as Danjô Imôto Yashio (弾正妹八汐) in
Sendai Hagi (先代萩), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/01/1983)
6. Ichimura Uzaemon XVII (市村羽左衛門) as Fujioka Tôjûrô (藤岡藤十郎) in
Shisenryô (四千両), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (02/01/1983).
7. Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as Yûjo Okaru (遊女おかる) in
Gion Ichiriki Jaya (祇園一力茶屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/02/1988).
8. Jitsukawa Enjaku III (實川延若) as Hyakushô Kyûsaku (百姓久作) in
Nozakimura (野崎村), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/1989).
9. Onoe Kikugorô VII (尾上菊五郎) as Benten Kozô (弁天小僧) in
Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (弁天娘女男白浪), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1995).
10. Matsumoto Kôshirô IX (松本幸四郎) as Matsuômaru (松王丸) in
Terakoya (寺子屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/02/1997).
11. Sawamura Tanosuke VI (澤村田之助) as Mitsuhide Tsuma Satsuki (光秀妻皐月) in
Kikyô no Hataage (桔梗旗揚), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/03/1997).
12. Nakamura Ganjirô III (中村鴈治郎) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) in
Shigure no Kotatsu (時雨の炬燵), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1996).*
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Yakko Torazô (奴虎蔵)

Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼)

Play: Kikubatake (菊畑), Act III, Scene 2 of
Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki
(鬼一法眼三略巻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/83
Print Date: 09/1983
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 25)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 1
(第三期大首絵シリーズの1)
Personal Collection (#13/36)

Note: 3 copies from the edition of 36 were destroyed by the artist.
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Tobizu Tsurumatsu (鳶頭鶴松)
Kô no Atama (高の頭)

Play: Omatsuri (お祭り)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection
 
Note: Kanzaburô XVII performed this role in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in September 1953, July 1956, July 1964, July
1969, July 1972, June 1976, and September 1985, as well as
special performance in March 1975.
 
 
 
 

            
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Kinokuniya Bunzaemon (紀伊國屋文左衛門)

Play: Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki
(黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: I have been unable to find a performance
by Kanzaburô XVII in this role.
 

                 
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as Izaemon (伊左衛門) 
           
Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII performed this role nine times between
1952 and 1987.